/r/Mothra
Home to everyone's favorite giant bug, MOTHRA!
Mothra, Guardian of Earth
ABOUT
Welcome to the MOTHRA subreddit!
Why Mothra? Many people may not realize that before she was walking in Godzilla's enormous shadow, Mothra actually starred in her own standalone film. In 1961, thanks to Godzilla, giant monster movies were on the rise, such as Rodan, Varan and the Gargantuas among others, but Mothra was one of the biggest break out stars in that era. She was so popular in fact, she has gone on to appear in 12 films (4 of which she was the title character).
If Godzilla represents mankind's biggest folly, Mothra would represent our biggest hope. Mothra is also known as a Guardian of Earth, along with her 2 twin fairy priestesses, the Shobijin, they help restore balance to the world whenever chaos threatens to destroy it.
What Mothra may lack in physical strength, she makes up in determination and spirit.
GUIDELINES
Play nice. No picking fights, no personal attacks, no slurs, insults, or abusing other readers in any way. Debating opinions is allowed, being a jackass is not. When in doubt, "WWMD"?
Feel free to post discussions about Mothra, as well as anything else related, such as movie screenshots, future film ideas, fan art or merchandise!
No posting non-Mothra related content. This is strictly a Mothra sub only! For all your other monster/kaiju needs, check our "Friends" tab!
NO NSFW CONTENT - Keep it clean... /r/Mothra is a family friendly subreddit.
FRIENDS
/r/Kaiju - For your generic giant monster needs.
/r/Godzilla - Subreddit for the big G himself.
/r/Zilla - Godzilla's doppelganger (AKA: G.I.N.O.)
/r/PacificRim - Drift with other Kaijuphiles today!
/r/KingKong - Everyone's favorite lovestruck ape.
/r/Gamera - Friend to all children, the flying superturtle!
SONG
(Malaysian/Japanese)
Mosura ya Mosura- dongan kasakuyan indoo muu- rosuto uiraadoa, hanba hanbamuyan- randa banunradan tounjukanraa- kasaku yaanmu- Mosura ya Mosura- yasashisasae wasure- arehateta- hito no kokoro inorinagara- utai, ai no uta"
(English)
"Mothra oh Mothra- Hear our call for you to save us- over time, over sea- like a wave you come- our guardian angel- Mothra oh Mothra- the people have forgotten kindness- their spirit falls to ruin- we shall pray for the people as we sing- this song of love"
OTHER
Viooz - A couple of free streaming films featuring Mothra
Wikizilla - Mothra's bio
Wikizilla - Shobijin's Bio
Mothra Kingdom - Nice little Mothra fanpage
Toho Kingdom - A long time, trusted, "go-to" site for various Toho films and related news.
Sci-Fi Japan - Very reliable source concerning all things Japanese Science Fiction.
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/r/Mothra
Yeah, you can say I’m kind of a big bug fan.
Rewatching creature features this year inspired me to create a whole collection of illustrations dedicated to them so here’s a little print & sticker moment! ✨
I have been thinking I want to do a new wrap on my car of mothra prolly old school versions where the car doors are the wings. Would that be stupid? Or maybe I should do something else? My car is a mission ariya so I thought the eco friendly and Japanese theme would fit nicely. Thoughts?
I'm going to watch it soon. If you spoil it for me, I kill you.
What do y'all think?
Hey Mothra Fans,
This is a pendant I made and sell in my Etsy!
I hope you and enjoy and visit my store!
Hope you enjoy! (Fair warning, it's pretty long)
As the Legendary Studios and Warner Bros. logos come and go, we start off as a flashback during early Ancient Egypt times, where Mothra was flying over the deserts, peacefully scattering her godly lights over man and animal alike, bowing down to her in reverence and becoming docile respectively, before she senses a disturbance somewhere. She rushes over to it, and sees Abaddon was out and about, his swarm scourging the area as he hunts for food.
Mothra dispels the swarm and attacks Abaddon with her God Rays, with Abaddon roaring at her. There have been MANY times Abaddon was searching for food and got interrupted by her, leaving him starving, and this time was the last straw, as he ends up attacking the Queen, and Mothra, in a show of stubbornness, engaging his challenge, and both insectoid Titans engaged in a brutal aerial battle as the Ancient Egyptians watched. It looked as it was going well for the more nimble Mothra, until Abaddon trapped Mothra in his strategically-placed webs, brutally slamming and dragging her across the sands, before he lifted her and opened his jaws as his swarm inches closer. It cuts to the Ancient Egyptians, who gasp and look on in horror as the sound crunching fill the air. Abaddon drops Mothra's lifeless corpse as he scuttles away, having satiated his and his swarm's hunger, while the screen zooms in on Mothra's eye. Whatever epic opening your mind makes happens, before the title lights up.
We follow Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall) and her surrogate daughter Jia (Kaylee Hottle) again, this time joined with the Chen Twins, Dr. Ilene and Dr. Ling (both played by Zhang Ziyi) as Jia dreams about Mothra…'s hatching, that is. That's right, sometime after the Skar King battle in Rio de Janeiro, Mothra has flown to the Borneo Jungle and laid an egg there, and the main cast arrive to witness it in person, and naturally, when the larva hatches, it was a magnificent sight for all involved. When the night falls and Jia goes to sleep in the Borneo Outpost, she once again shares a dream with Mothra, joined by the Chen Twins, due to their history with the Queen… until the dream started going out of control, wildly flashing and prophesying, among other things, darkness enveloping the skies, unblinking red eyes, a high-pitched whining sound, and the earth collapsing, in that order.
Everyone in the dream, from where they are, wake up in a cold sweat, until they get an urgent call that the Mothra Larva was displaying an unnatural and out of character level of agitation, proven correct when they see the slightly nervous Mothra pulsating yellow and orange, before breaking free of her containment and vanishing into the forest. It was pretty easily seen that something big was about to go down if Mothra of all Titans was getting upset. And soon enough, it looked like it came true when out of nowhere, a devastating earthquake shook a large part of Asia, splitting the ground asunder and causing ruin, all while energy signatures shows Mothra venturing into Hollow Earth. At this point, the humans knew something was up. So it was decided, one team, with Dr. Ilene Chen, would stay up on the Surface World and monitor any more earthquakes or disturbances, and another, with Dr. Ling, and newcomers to the series Lance Gibson (Donny Lucas) and Scarlet Wilde (Emilia Clarke) would venture into Hollow Earth to keep track of Mothra.
As Team Hollow Earth follows Mothra, understanding that she is sensing something they don't, they keep a close eye on her. Mothra continues making a beeline, hauling ass towards wherever, until she enters a foggy quarry and sees a flashing light that, upon closer inspection, is originating from inside a cocoon. All of a sudden, the cocoon starts tearing as whatever it is begins to hatch, causing Mothra to tense up, until the fog dispels and the figure shows itself, that being… Battra. The flashing light was his horn, and Mothra, seeing this larva that shares the same similarities to her, softens up. Team Hollow Earth were stunned at seeing another Moth Titan, especially with scans showing they share the same genetic material. Mothra appears to be slightly taller than Battra, with Lance suggesting the possibility of them being siblings, and with Mothra having hatched first, her being the elder sibling, something that everybody agrees on. Battra has sensed Mothra's presence and vice-versa, with the Queen of the Monsters being visibly overjoyed to be an older sister. Until Battra's horn glows red, and he glows the same color in agitation, before beckoning Mothra to follow him, and the humans trail after them.
Mothra and Battra's venture in the rest of Hollow Earth lead to the Moth Siblings getting ambushed by a large and aggressive Praying Mantis Sub-Titan called a Scymantis. Battra, who has never been in a serious battle before, was scared and hid behind Mothra, who fortunately, did know how to fight. Mothra does battle with the Scymantis, and Mothra, filled with a huge protective big sister instinct, had actually led to her to do something she has never done before: killing the Scymantis, a move that stuns everyone watching, even Mothra herself, though she quickly collects herself, not regretting the action if it meant protecting Battra, and continues on to follow Battra's signal. Both Moth Siblings take a breather in a large beautiful grassy plain, where they see large glowing aphid-like creatures called Flight Lights, one of whom Mothra grabs and directs it's abdomen to her mouth, before eating in a delicious (to her) substance like an ant eating honeydew from an aphid. Battra tries to do the same as his sister, but seeing as he's recently hatched, he doesn't know how to, which visibly saddens him. Mothra, seeing the trouble her younger brother is facing, teaches him how to properly eat from a Flight Light, and does so properly, causing him to light up in happiness.
Meanwhile, with Team Surface World, Monarch is helping the areas of Asia that has been led to ruin by the earthquake, when multiple field personnel report an abundance of spiders around the vicinity, something they identify to be a sign that Abaddon is arriving. Sure enough, he does indeed show up, his swarm following him. Abaddon was highly aggressive, even for him, something that confuses the Monarch team up above, until Abaddon uses his webbing to reach in and pulls out a huge insectoid Titan. The humans back away as Abaddon engages in a battle with the creature, before killing it, and feasting on it along with some of his swarm using the corpse as a shelter/host . Abaddon leaves, but the humans are left to ponder at what came out. Back in Hollow Earth, the Moth Siblings a large chasm in the ground, going several kilometers down, called the Gaping Maw. The Moth Siblings leap down the chasm, falling underneath and dispelling a veil of natural steam, with the humans following them, until they reach the bottom.
Mothra bravely treads ahead, while Battra cautiously trails behind her, his horn staying red. Until the humans manage to direct the two of them to a veil of what looked like webbing, with Scarlet confirming it not belonging to the Moth Titans. Both Moths rip it open, and are met with a huge hive, all filled to the brim with Meganulons, almost all of whom stop and stare at them. Battra was nervous, but Mothra crawled forward. Up until she sees a Meganulon about to fall to its death, at which point she rushes forward with no hesitation and saves it. As the Meganulon stared at her in what looked like awe and wonder, a loud screeching is heard, and all the Meganulons back away as both Moth Siblings. Battra looked terrified, while Mothra was defiant, as the Queen of the Meganulons, Megaguirus, emerged and hovered down to greet the newcomers.
Megaguirus sniffed Mothra out with her antennae, and understood that she came from the Surface World, which is good news for her, seeing as she wants to expand her hive. Until she sensed something else on the Surface. One of her own was dead, murdered and desecrated like a puppet. The same one that Abaddon killed. Furious at one of her brood's death, Megaguirus took this as a declaration of war and engaged the Moth Siblings in battle (yes, she treats her subjects with remarkably more respect and kindness than the Skar King). Mothra valiantly fought her, even as a larva, while protecting the terrified Battra. While it looked like Mothra was doing well, Megaguirus, due to being mature, being incredibly speedy, having razor-sharp wings, her "Stinger Spark" blast attack, and ability to fly, managed to overpower her, grappling her in a deadly lock with her pincers and stinger tail, and even absorbing Mothra's energy with her stinger and amplifying her Stinger Spark. Battra was scared, but upon seeing Mothra struggling, he decided to charge in and his horn lights up with yellow electrical (what looks like it, anyway) energy, and using it to force Megaguirus off of Mothra, who tag teams the Meganulon Queen and slams her to the ground.
They would have continued, if not for Megaguirus' wings glowing while letting out a high-pitched whining sound and roaring. Suddenly, the ground is practically torn apart and messily put back together as a shape erupted from the underground, and out came the hulking shape of Megalon, whom Megaguirus treated almost like a brother, with Megalon in turn, being unfailingly loyal to her. Megaguirus glowed yellow as she explained the situation to Megalon, who instantly turned to the Moth Siblings with his unblinking red eyes, and using his terraforming abilities over the earth to disorient and severely injure Mothra and Battra, forcing them to retreat. As the humans escape the Gaping Maw and bring the two Moth Titans to a secluded but humongous cavern to rest, the humans recounted everything, which included them learning the fact that Megalon's terraforming matched the split earth in Asia, confirming who was responsible. They then looked at their surroundings, ancient tunnels with writings of an ancient tribe, explaining that their God, Megalon, created the Vile Vortexes to Hollow Earth, but after getting touched by a "Golden Ray of Light", he had become destructive after meeting Megaguirus, a "kindred spirit", and have a solution should they ever attack the world. Unbeknownst to them, the Moth Siblings found that solution: a huge influx of Hollow Earth radiation, not only healing their wounds, but supercharging them, and accelerating their growth. When the humans finally notice the blinding lights behind them, they saw the double cocoons, and the literal blinding beauty of both Moth Siblings gracefully emerge in their Imago Forms.
Battra was amazed at his new form, while Mothra makes a dash and flies out, zooming out. Meanwhile, Battra flies back into the Gaping Maw to keep an eye on the Meganulons, he sees that Megaguirus is on the move, with Megalon and a crap-ton of Meganulon Warrior drones to assist her in her invasion of the Surface World. Battra flies back to the humans and warns this to Jia, who relays it to the humans, until Lance asks where the hell Mothra went to, with Scarlet bringing up scans revealing she went to the Surface. Back up in the Surface World, the team there reads Mothra's signatures erupting as she flies out, but she is making a straight beeline for a specific Titan. To Abaddon. Mothra is directly provoking him to get him to follow her to combat this threat, which worries Dr. Ling, seeing as she was aware of what Abaddon was capable of. Sure enough, the two Insect Titans collide in Bangladesh, where a furious Abaddon engages the challenging Mothra in combat once again. It seems as if history is going to repeat, until Battra steps in between the downed Mothra and Abaddon, and explains the situation. Abaddon was motionless for a few moments, before he backs off and follows Mothra and Battra to Hollow Earth.
With Team Hollow Earth, they were now tasked with holding the line between Megaguirus' forces, and the Vile Vortexes to the Surface World until Mothra comes back, knowing that they're in big trouble if they manage to get there. While this happens, Battra and Abaddon get into some skirmishes about one-upping the other due to Battra's newfound confidence with his powers and Abaddon's dislike of anything moth, but manage to hold it in enough to get to their destination. Soon enough, the three insectoid Titans arrive at the battlefield, where they charge in as Megaguirus and her forces do too. Mothra engages in a dogfight with Megaguirus, Battra attacks Megalon on the ground, and Abaddon makes some snacks out of the Meganulons with his swarm puppeteering their corpses to help him, as the humans attempt to both escape and join in on the fight. During the brawl, Megalon manages to make the ground unstable enough for him to fall into a Vile Vortex, causing the other Titans (and humans) to follow suit.
In the Surface World, all the combatants find themselves in Barcelona, Spain. Megaguirus commands her hive with a high-pitched chitter to arrive, with Megaguirus' absorption of Mothra's abilities darkening the sky in a huge electrical superstorm, one Meganulon almost grabbing the humans, until Abaddon swoops in to save them, and the Moth Siblings follow suit. Their battles takes them to the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone. During the clash of insects, Battra realized brute force wasn't going to work on Megalon, so he continued beating down the huge beetle, until he grabbed the fatigued Megalon by the horn, and aerial suplexed him, making the ground give way and having him plummet to the depths of the earth, his fate unknown. Now without her biggest ally and close companion, Megaguirus was furious, and her attacks show so, but this proves to be her downfall when both Moth Siblings tag-team her with slashes and stabs, as Battra amplifies Mothra's own abilities, when Mothra grabs her and stares her down. Megaguirus roars defiantly, which is when Mothra flies up to the superstorm and throws Megaguirus in there, electrocuting her to death and causing most of her limbs to explode from her body, before Mothra slams Megaguirus down on one of the volcanoes, immolating her and leaving no trace of her behind. Both Moth Siblings and Abaddon roar triumphantly as Mothra uses her God Rays to dispel the superstorm. Mothra looks at Abaddon, who seems to give her and Battra a look of respect with an appropriate chitter, before he scuttles off, his swarm faithfully following him.
Mothra is seen patrolling over the skies of the Amazon Rainforest, until she is greeted by Battra, as both the Moth Siblings exchange a cute little bioluminescent show of affection towards each other. Both teams of humans watch as Mothra and Battra fly off, casting a bigger light than the sun, and fade to white as the ending scene before credits roll.
Has anyone find this yet in California? Someone on eBay is selling this for $100 and I just wanna find her at target but no luck :(